Data:

Data is the information we are gathering and entering into this project. Once everyone's data is gathered together, we can look at it as a whole. Some of the questions that come up on your "Observation Form" also rely on this data. You can figure out the answers by come back to this page.

Location:

At the beginning of your form, you are asked whether you do your observations in the city, suburb, or countryside. Do you think the environment you are in influences the number and kind of pollinators you observe? Probably so, but how. This is not an easy question but knowing where you are located can help us understand this better.We hope that more children from within the city will join the project so that particular environment is better represented.

Weather:

You were asked to do your observations on good weather days. That's important because most pollinators will not forage on flowers if the weather is bad.Take a look at this chart, which shows the weather during last 2 weeks observations (from the forms you sent in).What do you think of it? Were most of the observations done on a sunny day?

Below are the number of blooms per plant (1 and 2). We found that our plants didn't always behave as we hoped and when they do, squirrels and crows seem to like that a little too much. For instance, plant 1 which is mostly sunflowers often got chopped off by garden visitors other than pollinators so, it is best to be flexible on which plants to use and switch if needed.

Pollinators:

Of course, pollinators is the most important piece of information we want to look at. From the start, our goal was not to identify individual species of insects but rather broad families. Even that can be very difficult without a lot of training. The chart on the left shows the children's observations (as of June 21rst) on plant 2, which means many species of native and non-native plants from their yards. The good news is that we are seeing many pollinators of many kinds but of there are a lot that are too difficult to put into a category. That's alright though; that's why we have the "Can't tell" and "Other" categories.